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    "pk": 15710,
    "title": "An Emergency Medicine Virtual Clerkship: Made for COVID, Here to Stay",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Introduction:\n Safety concerns surrounding the coronavirus 2019 pandemic led to the prohibition  of student rotations outside their home institutions. This resulted in emergency medicine (EM)- bound students having less specialty experience and exposure to outside programs and practice  environments, and fewer opportunities to gain additional Standardized Letters of Evaluation, a  cornerstone of the EM residency application. We filled this void by implementing a virtual clerkship.\nMethods:\n We created a two-week virtual, fourth-year visiting clerkship focused on advanced medical  knowledge topics, social determinants of health, professional development, and professional identity  formation. Students completed asynchronous assignments and participated in small group-facilitated  didactic sessions. We evaluated the virtual clerkship with pre- and post-medical knowledge tests and  evaluative surveys.\nResults:\n We hosted 26 senior medical students over two administrations of the same two-week  virtual clerkship. Students had a statistically significant improvement on the medical knowledge post-tests compared to pre-tests (71.7% [21.5/30] to 76.3% [22.9/30]). Students reported being exposed  to social determinants of health concepts they had not previously been exposed to. Students  appreciated the interactive nature of the sessions; networking with other students, residents, and  faculty; introduction to novel content regarding social determinants of health; and exposure to future  career opportunities. Screen time, technological issues, and mismatch between volume of content  and time allotted were identified as potential challenges and areas for improvement.\nConclusion:\n We demonstrate that a virtual EM visiting clerkship is feasible to implement, supports  knowledge acquisition, and is perceived as valuable by participants. The benefits seen and  challenges faced in the development and implementation of our clerkship can serve to inform future  virtual clerkships, which we feel is a complement to traditional visiting clerkships even though in-person clerkships have been re-established.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Curriculum, Virtual, Clerkship, COVID"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Education Special Issue - Educational Advances (Limit 3500 words)",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2d96r11m",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Stephen",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Villa",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UCLA Department of Emergency Medicine\nDavid Geffen School of Medicine\nLos Angeles, CA\nsevilla@mednet.ucla.edu,\n310-794-0585",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Hannah",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Janeway",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California – Los Angeles, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Kian",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Preston-Suni",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California – Los Angeles, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California\nDavid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California\nGreater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Ashley",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Vuong",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California – Los Angeles, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Ignacio",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Calles",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California – Los Angeles, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "James",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Murphy",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California – Los Angeles, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Taylor",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "James",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California – Los Angeles, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Jaime",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Jordan",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California – Los Angeles, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California\nDavid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los \nAngeles, California",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Andrew",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Grock",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los \nAngeles, California\nGreater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System, Department of Emergency Medicine, \nLos Angeles, California",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Natasha",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Wheaton",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California – Los Angeles, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California\nDavid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los \nAngeles, California",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2021-07-15T00:20:29Z",
    "date_accepted": "2021-07-15T00:20:29Z",
    "date_published": "2021-12-18T00:36:38Z",
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